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Jabin king of Hazor heard what had happened. He sent news to Jobab king of Madon and to the kings of Shimron and Achshaph.

Then Joshua turned back and took Hazor and killed its king with the sword. For Hazor had been the head of all these nations.

They killed every person in it with the sword, destroying all of them. There was no one left who breathed. Then he burned Hazor with fire.

But Israel did not burn any cities that stood on their hills, except Hazor, which Joshua burned.

the king of Madon, the king of Hazor,

Kedesh, Hazor, Ithnan,

Hazor-hadattah, Keriothhezron (that is, Hazor),

Adamah, Ramah, Hazor,

Kedesh, Edrei, En-hazor,

So the Lord let them be taken by Jabin king of Canaan, who ruled in Hazor. The head of his army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth-hagoyim.

Sisera ran away on foot to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite. For there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the family of Heber the Kenite.

But they forgot the Lord their God. So He sold them into the hand of Sisera, captain of the army of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab. And they fought against them.

After two full years, Absalom had men cut the wool from the sheep in Baal-hazor, near Ephraim. And Absalom asked all the king's sons to come.

Now King Solomon made men work to build the house of the Lord, his own house, the Millo, the wall of Jerusalem, Hazor, Meggido and Gezer.

In the days of King Pekah of Israel, King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria came to fight. The king of Assyria took Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, Galilee, and all the land of Naphtali. And he made the people go with him to Assyria.

Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim,

About Kedar and the nations of Hazor, which were beaten in battle by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Lord says, "Get up and go to Kedar, and destroy the men of the east.

Run! Run far away! Live in the deep places, O people of Hazor," says the Lord. "For Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has made a plan against you. He has thought of a way to hurt you.

"Hazor will become a place where wild dogs live, a waste place forever. No man will live there, and no man will stay there."